awesome school, great opportunity i wish bill and Kathy still ran the school. my family has been attending since the 90s. Now it's time for my kids to attend. The fact that the teachers live on site helped during study hall when I attended. You were taught values and commitment. I didn't realize it then but I appreciate this school so much and for what it did to my family and everyone that's an alumni. You truly meet people for life. read more

DO NOT SEND YOUR KID TO THIS SCHOOL!! This school is very cult like in terms of cliques. If you aren't a part of a clique then you are isolated from the rest of the school and it doesn't already help that the school only has around 150 students in total. There was many instances where teachers would cross personal boundaries with students and their families, specifically if a student was showing interest of leaving then staff would take it into their own hands to discouraged the parents by emotional manipulate them to fear the "dangers" of public school. Ironically while also having selling illegal substances to students on campus as young as middle schoolers. Although this school does have a 100% acceptance rate for college, public schools have better benefits. Some public schools offer early college programs where a senior can graduate with an associates along with their diploma. Now who wouldn't want that! These schools also offer certifications for careers like business information management, Microsoft, coding, and welding. With these certifications students can determine what career path they want to choose early and also have experience already. At chinquapin a student is forced to take preselected courses for most of their careers and aren't given many opportunities to explore different career paths due to lack of staffing as well as class options and school funding. Speaking of funding, due to low funding to the school and how old the school, there has been many incidents of infrastructure issues. The location of the campus isn't ideal at all. The school dips down and it's constantly getting flooded needing constant repair. As well as being close proximity to a water tower. Constant natural disaster warnings happening. If you truly think you son/daughter is brilliant and extraordinary then they don't need a private school excel academically. Public schools have better benefits that would help your child have a bright future and succeed. To summarize, DO NOT BRING YOUR CHILD TO THIS SCHOOL!! read more

I put my son in school here. Laura Henry was the headmaster. I was very excited they excepted him. It was an extremely difficult time in his life. Without a doubt, he would have been one of the most brilliant students they ever had. Recently he graduated from high school his junior year, with over a year of college as well. He has gotten a four year full ride to the college of his choice due to his academic achievements. However, he lasted less than a month at Chinquapin. He did not feel welcomed. He is a very accepting person, but I cannot help think part of the reason he left was they put him in a room with five openly gay boys. He even walked in on two of them in bed together one day. WTF? Even for the most accepting and kind heterosexual teenagers like my son, this would have been uncomfortable. That is like putting a daughter in a dorm room with a bunch of young hormone driven hetrosexual boys. It seems like they would have cared enough to do better by him. I can only assume they wanted him to leave, but why put a kid through that? They new he was going through a fragile time. I would not send a child here again for any reason. I am very sad about what happened in Orlando this past weekend, but that doesn't have anything to do with the poor judgement by the administration, which my son was subject to under the roof of The Chinquapin School. read more